I’m in school and I’ll be writing a paper about the politics of grammar, how “proper” English rules are arbitrary and class-based, and how all types of slang or dialects or pidgen are internally consistent.

Dated a guy off and on for maybe 9 months, ended things 2 months ago. I'm still so upset and angry and hurt at him and how he treated me. I'm tired of feeling like this, please, any advice for not caring so much and being so mad would be appreciated.

So, you might have heard about the recently publicized remarks from Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, at Grace Hopper. Essentially, in response to a question, he said that women shouldn't ask for raises but trust that their work would speak for itself and inspire rewards. Saying this ignores several well-known issues…

I was at a Japanese restaurant with some friends the other day and several of them had really weird table manners with chopsticks and Japanese food. I'm Japanese-American, so it bugs me to see people do stuff like stick their chopsticks in their rice. But then again, I'm Japanese-American so I'm way too polite to…